[单选题]According to the passage, there is a need for satire because people need to be__________.

阅读材料，回答下面的题目。Satiric LiteraturePerhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness, its originality of perspective.Satire rarely offers original ideas.Instead, it presents the familiar in a new form.Satirists do not offer the world new philosophies.What they do is look at familiar conditions from a perspective that makes these conditions seem foolish, harmful, or affected.Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values we unquestioningly accept are false.Don Quixote makes chivalry seem absurd; Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science; A Modest Proposal dramatizes starvation by advocating cannibalism.None of these ideas is original.Chivalry was suspect before Cervantes, humanists objected to the claims of pure science before Aldoua Huxley, and people were aware of famine before Swirl.It was not the originality of the idea that made these satires popular.It was the manner of expression, the satiric method, that made them interesting and entertaining. Satires are read because they are aesthetically satisfying works of art, not because they are morally wholesome or ethically instructive.They are stimulating and refreshing because with common sense briskness they brush away illusions and second-hand opinions.With spontaneous irreverence, satire rearranges perspectives, scrambles familiar objects into incongruous juxtaposition, and speaks in a personal idiom instead of abstract platitude. Satire exists because there is need for it.It has lived because readers appreciate a refreshing stimulus,an irreverent reminder that they live in a world of platitudinous thinking, cheap moralizing, and foolish philosophy. Satire serves to prod people into all awareness of truth, though rarely to any active on behalf of truth. Satire tends to remind people that much of what they see, hear, and read in popular media issanctimonious, sentimental, and only partially true.Life resembles in only a slight degree the popular image of it. Soldiers rarely hold die ideals that movies attribute to them, nor do ordinary citizens devote their lives to unselfish service of humanity.Intelligent people know these things but tend to forget them when they do not hear them expressed.What does the passage mainly discuss?

正确答案 ：C

reminded that popular ideas are often inaccurate

解析：【答案】C【解析】根据文章最后一段内容“Satire tends to remind people that nluch of what thev see，hear，and read in popular media is sanctimonious，sentimental，and only partially true．”可知，讽刺小说倾向于告诫人们，人们在大众媒体上看到的、听到的和读到的内容是伪善的，是带有情感的(而非理性的)，并且只有部分内容是真实的，所以C符合题意。

[单选题]We have ample money for the journey.A, some

正确答案 ：

[单选题]请在第___________处填上正确答案．

阅读材料，回答下面的题目： What We Take from and Give to the Sea  As long as we have been on earth, we have used the sea around us. We take from the ocean, and we give to it. We take fishes from the ocean-millions of kilograms of fish, every year, to51millions of people. We even52their bones for fertilizer. We take minerals from the ocean. One way to get salt is to53seawater in shallow basin and leave until it evaporates( 蒸发 ). Along with salt, other minerals are left 54 evaporation.Much gold and silver drift dissolved in the waters of the sea, too. But the sea does not give them 55 by simpleevaporation.56gifts from the sea are pearls, sponges( 海绵) and seaweed. Pearls57jewelry. Natural sponges become cleaning aids. Seaweed becomes 58 of many kinds-even candy, and ice cream - as well as medicine. Believe it or not, fresh water is another 59 from the sea. We cannot drink ocean water. Some of its contents may. 60 illness. But ocean water becomes fresh water when the salts are 61 . In the future, we will find ourselves 62 more and more on fresh water from the sea. The sea63us food, fertilizer, minerals, water, and other gifts. What do we give the sea? Garbage. We pollute the ocean 64 we use it as a garbage dump. Huge as it is, the ocean cannot hold all the water that we pour into it. 65 garbage into the ocean is killing off sea life. Yet as the world population grows, we may need the sea and its gifts ,more than ever.请在第___________处填上正确答案．

正确答案 ：B

place

解析：【答案】B【解析】句意为：制盐的一种办法就是将海水放在浅底的水池里直至水分完全蒸发。

[单选题]Since the birth of the Barbie doll it has served as a sign to show the tendency of the fashion.

回答下面的题目:When Ruth and Eliiot Handler was young, they had a strong desire to be highly successful.

正确答案 ：B

Wrong

[单选题]He talks tough but has a tender heart.

正确答案 ：C

kind

解析：【题 干】他言辞严厉，但心肠很好。A．重的 B．强壮的 C．善良的 D．野的【解 析】本题考查形容词。tender的意思是“柔弱的”，与kind意思相近，故答案为C。

[单选题]回答{TSE}题:Exercise Being Good or BadCan exercise be a bad thing? Sudden death during or soon after strenuous exertion on the squash court or on the army training grounds, is not unheard of. 51 trained marathon runners are not immune to fatal heart attacks. But no one knows just 52 common these sudden deaths linked to exercise are. The registration andinvestigation of such 53 is very patchy; only a national survey could determine the true 54 of sudden deaths in sports. But the climate of medical opinion is shifting in 55 of exercise, for the person recovering from a heart attack as 56 as the average lazy individual. Training can help the victim of a heart attack bylowering the 57 of oxygen the heart needs at any given level of work 58 the patient can do more before reaching the point where chest pains indicate a heart starved of oxygen. The question is, should middle-aged people, 59 .particular, be screened for signs of heart disease before 60 vigorous exercise?Most cases of sudden death in sport are caused by lethal arrhythmias in the beating of the heart, often in people 61 undiagnosed coronary heart disease. In North America 62 over 35 is advised to have a physical check-up and even an exercise electrocardiogram. The British, on the whole, think all this testing isunnecessary. Not many people die from exercise, 63 , and ECGs ( 心电图 ) are notoriously inaccurate. However, two medical cardiologists at the Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow, advocate screening by exercise ECG for people over 40, or younger people 64 at risk of developing coronary heart disease. Individuals showing a particular abnormality in their ECGs 65 , they say, a 10 to 20 times greater risk of subsequently developing signs of coronary heart disease, or of sudden death.{TS}第51题应选：

正确答案 ：D

Even

解析：【解析】句意为：__________是受过训练的马拉松长跑运动员也不能避免致命的心脏病突发。四个选项：then“然后”；though“虽然”；since“自从，既然”；even“甚至，即使”。

[单选题]Finnish vowels are easy to distinguish.

回答下面的题目：Easy LearningStudents should be jealous．Not only do babies get to doze their days away, but they’ve also mastered the fine art of learning in their sleep.By the time babies are a year old they can recognise a lot of sounds and even simple words．Marie Cheour at the University of Turku in Finland suspected that they might progress this fast because they learn language while they sleep as well as when they are awake.To test the theory, Cheour and her colleagues studied 45 newborn babies in the first few days of their lives．They exposed all the infants to an hour of Finnish vowel sounds—one that sounds like “oo”, another like “ee” and a third boundary vowel peculiar to Finnish and similar languages that sounds like something in between．EEG recordings of the infants brains before and after the session showed that the newborns could not distinguish the sounds.Fifteen of the babies then went back with their mothers, while the rest were split into two sleep-study groups．One group was exposed throughout their night-time sleeping hours to the same three vowels, while the others listened to other, easier-to-distinguish vowel sounds.When tested in the morning, and again in the evening, the babies who’d heard the tricky boundary vowel all night showed brainwave activity indicating that they could now recognise this new sound．They could identify the sound even when its pitch was changed, while none of the other babies could pick up the boundary vowel at all.Cheour doesn’t know how babies accomplish this night-time learning, but she suspects that the special ability might indicate that unlike adults, babies don’t “turn off” their cerebral cortex while they sleep．The skill probably fades in the course of the first year of life, she adds—so forget the idea that you can pick up tricky French vowels as an adult just by slipping a language tape under your pillow．But while it may not help grown-ups, Cheour is hoping to use the sleeping hours to give remedial help to babies who are genetically at risk of language disorders.Babies can learn language even in their sleep.

正确答案 ：C

Not mentioned

[单选题]John is eligible for this job.

正确答案 ：B

recommended 

解析：【题 干】John的工作很称职 。 【解 析】考查形容语。题干划线词eligible意为“合格的，有资格当选的”，所以正确答案为B。本题属于划线词与正确选项并非同义词或者近义词，而是基本含义相同、同时能使句子通顺的单词替换。

[单选题]According to the passage, it may soon be possible__________

根据材料，回答问问题。The Science of the Future      Until recently, the "science of the future" was supposed to be electronics and artificialintelligence. Today it seems more and more likely that the next great breakthroughs intechnology will be brought through a combination of those two sciences with organic chemistryand genetic engineering. This combination is the science of biotechnology.       Organic chemistry enables us to produce marvelous synthetic (合成的) materials. However,it is still difficult to manufacture anything that has the capacity of wool to conserve heat and alsoto absorb moisture. Nothing that we have been able to produce so far comes anywhere near thecombination of strength, lightness and flexibility that we fred in the bodies of ordinary insects.Nevertheless, scientists in the laboratory have already succeeded in "growing" a material that has many of the characteristics of human skin. The next step may well be "biotech heartsand eyes" which can replace diseased organs in human beings. These will not be rejected by thebody, as is the case with organs from humans.       The application of biotechnology to energy production seems even more promising. In1996 the famous science-fiction writer, Arthur C. Clarke, many of whose previous predictionshave come true. He said that we may soon be able to develop remarkably cheap and renewablesources of energy. Some of these power sources will be biological. Clarke and others havewarned us repeatedly that sooner or later we wi/1 have to give up our dependence on non-renewable power sources. Coal, oil and gas are indeed convenient. However, using them alsomeans creating dangerously high levels of pollution. It will be impossible to meet the growingdemand for energy without increasing that pollution to catastrophic (灾难性的) levels unlesswe develop power sources that are both cheaper and cleaner.      It is attempting to think that biotechnology or some other "science of the future" can solveour problems. Before we surrender to that temptation we should remember nuclear power.Only a few generations ago it seemed to promise/imit/ess, cheap and safe energy. Today thosepromises lie buried in a concrete grave in a place called Chernobyl, in the Ukraine.Biotechnology is unlikely, however, to break its promises in quite the same or such a dangerousway.According to the passage, the science of the future is likely to be__________

正确答案 ：D

to make artificial hearts and eyes

解析：【题 干】根据文章，很可能__________。 【解 析】细节题。该题无法利用题干关键词定位到原句，改为定位选项。利用选项关键词可以定位到文中第三段讲到生物化学可以帮助我们在未来生产出人工器官，以替代人体中发病的器官，所以选项D是正确答案。

[单选题]请在第_____处填上正确答案。

根据以下资料，回答下面的题目。 Need to remember the purpose of youth sports—to give kids a chance to have developing strong，healthy bodies． 请在第_____处填上正确答案。

正确答案 ：

解析：句意：但是其他普通的孩子呢?本句前面It’s true that a few of these kids will develop into highly skilled athletes and may even become members of the national Olympic teams的a few指出了少部分孩子运动竞技成绩好，此处笔锋一转，转向大多数其他孩子。所以本句选E。

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